San Diego: SD Zoo

Our final destination in San Diego was to visit the world famous San Diego Zoo. Neither of us had been to it before, so this was another Jason and Lisa first time visit. The main thing that we couldn’t believe with the SD Zoo was the SIZE! We’ve been to a few zoo’s around the US and this one is by far the largest one we’ve ever seen. The trails and animals are scattered on the vast landscape that you think will end around the corner but then you see a trail leading down a hill to an entirely new section. Let’s just say that if there weren’t signs everywhere we would have been lost and running wild with the animals.

If you don’t think it’s really that big, maybe you should know that it is so big enough to have a double-decker bus services as a way to get around the park. I love it because it’s like combining London and a zoo all in one wonderful package.

Here we are hiding among the plants.

Outside the Zoo.

So many animals to see and so little time. Here are some pictures of just a fraction of the animals that live at the zoo.

Now for the best part of the trip to the zoo. We had no clue that the zoo did anything like this, but apparently the zoo has this one time in the day when the visitors can feed the giraffes! If you know me, you know that I love giraffes. We were given these little red biscuits and were asked to hold them out to the giraffes who will reach down and wrap their tongues around it. Jason and I figured that if we fed the biscuits with our backs towards the giraffes they would have to reach over and we could get better pictures.

Here are our pictures from that memorable experience. Look for their long, purple tongues.

Here is Jason on a moving walkway within the zoo. Some of the hills in the zoo are so big that they placed these walkways to make life so much easier on those of us that stumbled down the hill.

Here are some elephants that can be found in the zoo.

Here are a couple of pictures of Jason around the zoo. It was a sunny day and he was such a joy to explore the zoo with.

On our way out of the zoo we were clear at the back of the zoo, which was also at the very bottom of a huge hill. Instead of hiking back up we decided to take the sky ride over the entire park. It was fun to see all of the animals from above, but I did get a little nervous when we went over the lions and wondered what would happen if we fell! Here are our pictures on the sky ride.

Once we were done with the park we headed back home to Costa Mesa. We had a wonderful time in San Diego and like being able to visit it when we want to. It’s a gorgeous city!